with a new preface by A.C. Grayling
'...Russell asks all the right questions and provides trenchant answers. A deeply human and compassionate book.' - Richard Layard
The Conquest of Happiness is Bertrand Russell's recipe for good living. First published in 1930, it pre-dates the current obsession with self-help books by decades. This new edition of a popular text from one of the greatest minds of the twentieth century deserves to sweep the young pretenders off the shelves. Russell didn't believe in feel-good platitudes, positivity and changing your life in seven days; for him, happiness, rather than a basic human right unfairly denied us by whomever or whatever we are told to blame, could only be achieved through both personal thought and effort. But for those willing to make that effort - while being effortlessly entertained along the way - this classic work could well be the answer to one of life's biggest questions. Russell leads the reader step-by-step through the causes of unhappiness and the personal choices, compromises and sacrifices that (may) lead to the final, affirmative conclusion of 'The Happy Man'. This is popular philosophy, even self-help, as it should be written.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970). A celebrated mathematician and logician, Russell was and remains one of the most genuinely widely read and popular philosophers of modern times.
